London, January 17, 2008: Are you Tibetan and ready to write your first feature length film script? Well you will have a chance next month in Dharamsala to attend the first scriptwriting seminar with Niko Von Glasow, award-winning German film director, producer and scriptwriter.
With rapidly growing interest amongst the Tibetans in filmmaking, this initial workshop is designed to help them in scriptwriting skills, from the original idea to writing short films to developing feature-length film scripts. Lobsang Jeshong, the Secretary for Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR), welcomed the seminar and said, “It is an excellent idea and the subject of workshop is very good and beneficial in the sense that script, story writing and film treatments are new to many Tibetan filmmakers. I am sure that this will help them a lot in their future ventures.”
This intensive nine-day course will explore essential elements of the scriptwriting process including finding your story; discovering and developing dimensional characters; dialogue; structure; goal and motivation and examples from different films.
The seminar will be held from 11th to 19th February 2008, with a registration fee of INR300. Deadline for the registration is 4th February. The candidates should have a good grasp of English with keen interest in filmmaking.
This first scriptwriting seminar is organised by London based Tibetan filmmaker Sam Wangyal of Wild Nomads for the Himalayan Film School in association with the Tibetan Government in Exile’s Department of Information and International Relations.
For registration and further details, contact Jigme Tsering, Joint Secretary, AV section (DIIR). Email: jigtse@gmail.com /Telephone: 01892 222 457 – 01892 222510
